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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (614514)6/2/2011 10:06:14 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578471
 
"Whoa! Then he's full time. Right?"

Well, in that he is expected to be at least somewhere around Austin most of the year, yes. But it isn't like he has anything like responsibilities or real power.

He does have the bully pulpit and veto power. The latter can be useful, like when Smirk vetoed funding for air and water quality monitoring when some of his buds who owned refineries complained about pesky lawsuits.


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